Samantha Bonar

You might not be able to sing like Beyonce, and it’s unlikely you could ever look like Beyonce, no matter how much Pilates you do (sorry). You probably can’t even name your daughter Blue Ivy (we’re pretty sure she’s copyrighted that). But, for a mere $215 or so a week,......

Doing a complete 180 from its popular Flamin’ Hot version, Cheetos is introducing a new limited-edition cinnamon-sugar flavor called Cheetos Sweetos. They just had to, right? The new limited-edition flavor will be sold starting in mid-February at stores across the United States. It is the first and only time Cheetos......

Lead, while a useful material for many things, is not what you want as the secret ingredient in your gingersnaps. And despite a 2013 lawsuit brought by the California state attorney general and the nonprofit Center for Environmental Health against Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and other grocers for selling candied......

Brent’s Deli’s skyscraper-high corned beef and pastrami sandwiches have recently brought the establishment notoriety different from the usual caloric kind. We’re talking the type that comes from the health department and at least one lawsuit. Stephanie Wehr of Oxnard is suing the Westlake Village Brent’s (there is also one in......

Keurig is recalling more than 7 million single-serving coffee brewing machines after receiving reports about burns. Hopefully you didn't get your grandma one for Christmas! The Keurig Mini Plus Brewing System can overheat and spray hot water during brewing, creating the potential for burns, according to the U.S. Consumer Product......

If you succumbed to the temptation of one of those crappy pre-packaged supermarket caramel apples around Halloween, you may have gotten more than you bargained for among the chopped peanuts and sprinkles — listeria.  Health officials are warning consumers not to eat commercially produced caramel apples after they were linked......

The U.S. Labor Department has secured more than $145,000 in wages and damages for almost six dozen Southern California El Pollo Loco employees who did not receive overtime pay they were owed. Sixty-nine workers employed at four franchise El Pollo Loco restaurants around Los Angeles will recover $72,613 in back......

The Los Angeles Unified School District has announced a new antibiotic-free standard for chicken products supplied to its schools in a move that makes them among the first of the country's large school districts to make the switch. Not only that, the new standards require that all chicken products must be......

Things were more than a little fishy at a local seafood-processing plant. So fishy, in fact, that the Department of Justice has gone to court to shut down the Los Angeles seafood company, Neptune Manufacturing Co., for producing and distributing "adulterated products." Translation: the facilities were filthy, and the Food......

Call your TMA (Thin Mints Anonymous) sponsor now. Now. Those devious little dessert-hawking munchkins who normally park their green-clad butts outside your local Vons are now going to start selling Girl Scout cookies online, USA Today reports. Which will make it that much more convenient to order way too many......